Made in Mexico.
21 Frets
Vintage Fender bridge type (mechanical Ping)
Alder body, maple neck one piece.
1 Ton, Volume 1,
Channel C
In short, it's a Tele, everyone knows! It would make a good slogan.
The mechanical it seems a little light. I love them like that, why take the points? In addition, you can always compare and find better, is not it. These mechanical fulfill their role, and that's it.

UTILIZATION

Channel ideal for me at least. It is slightly polished, does not stick, it's slippery and it's nice, yes!
Access to acute: OK, it's a Fender, but I think we play the 21th box rarely serious.
Excellent ergonomics. I do not know how much weight a guitar, it is at least as heavy as my Mexican Strate. But we are comfortable with, nothing to say.
Get a good sound: it's easy, just plug and play. In fact no, we did not even need to plug ... it's true, I also like playing like that, in acoustics.

SOUNDS

I am very rock and blues. The Telecaster excels in these records.
I play with a Roland Cube 30 from home, not a panacea amps, though very correct, and it's still really fun!
I would say that the issue, there are two possibilities: either you play clean channel, and there you get a good pickup in Twang, a good blues mellow neck pickup, and a hybrid of the two middle position. The sound, clear channel, is excellent, not too sharp, not too serious, well-defined.
Such a saturation pretty frank, one remains in the rock, the Telecaster can.
on the other hand, in the style groooooooooosse saturation bourrain Metallica, Evanescence, etc ... (I like the way) the sound becomes a bit messy. I do not think a pure metallic and hard drive in there's something. For me, it happens again.
Incidentally, I find the original pickups more than adequate, better than those of my Strate mexico (original). I have no plans to change them for now.

I put 10 because I do not think the problem is a large saturations precisely. You do not buy a Tele to play Metall. She is doing very well with a good distortion, but do not push it too much either!

OVERALL OPINION

I've had .... one week. Ok, it's not long, but since one week, I did not let go. On this guitar, I like everything. She's beautiful, she is finished, there's really nothing wrong (yet, I know to be critical!)
New paid 520 euros (I live in Germany), I find amazing value for money!
I have long procrastinated, between a US and Mexico. Being left-handed, I had to order my US .... and wait 8 months! Pfff. Having read a lot about Fender Mexico, I say first said it was better to wait ...
And finally, I still took the Southwestern, and frankly, I do not recognize this guitar in the negative reviews of Internet users.
Many agreed that the Mexicans have made serious progress in the quality, I think they are right ...